Word Meanings - COOPERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.
Related words: (words related to COOPERING)
- MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - BUSINESS
The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's - MAKING-IRON
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in. - COOPERY
Relating to a cooper; coopered. Coopery vessels made of wood. Holland. - REPAIR
fr. L. repatriare to return to one's contry, to go home again; pref. re- re- + patria native country, fr. pater father. See Father, and 1. To return. I thought . . . that he repaire should again. Chaucer. 2. To go; to betake one's self; to resort; - MAKE
A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer. - COOPERING
Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper. - MAKED
Made. Chaucer. - COOPERATOR
One who labors jointly with others to promote the same end. "Coöperators with the truth." Boyle. - REPAIRABLE
Reparable. Gauden. - MAKE-UP
The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward. - MAKESHIFT
That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot. - BUSINESSLIKE
In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods. - MAKEWEIGHT
That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap. - COOPERAGE
1. Work done by a cooper. 2. The price paid for coopers; work. 3. A place where coopers' work is done. - MAKE-BELIEVE
A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold. - MAKARON
See 2 - MAKING-UP
1. The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof. 2. The act of becoming reconciled or friendly. - MAKI
A lemur. See Lemur. - REPAIRER
One who, or that which, repairs, restores, or makes amends. - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - BRICKMAKER
One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n. - SAILMAKER
One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n. - WIDOW-MAKER
One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak. - MATCHMAKER
1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages. - HAYMAKING
The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay. - MERRYMAKING
Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly. - GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n. - DISREPAIR
A state of being in bad condition, and wanting repair. The fortifications were ancient and in disrepair. Sir W. Scott. - VLISSMAKI
The diadem indris. See Indris. - ROADMAKER
One who makes roads.